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Types of Landforms
Vocabulary 2
Short Response
100
The movement of weathered rock and soil
What is Erosion
100
A rock splitting is
What is weathering
100
Highest landform
What are mountains
100
Shaking of earths surface
What is an earthquake
100
Causes sand dunes to form
What is the wind
200
A large amount of water that covers the land
What is flood
200
Most earthquakes happen here
What is on faults
200
A wide, flat area
What are plains
200
A huge block of ice
What is a glacier
200
Quick change to the land
What is Volcano, Flood or Earthquake
300
A flat area higher than the land around it
What is a plateau
300
How does a flood change the land
It drops soil
300
Valley with steep sides
What is a canyon
300
The way rocks are broken into smaller pieces
What is weathering
300
Heavy rainfall that makes rivers overflow
What is a flood
400
An opening in Earth's surface from which lava flows
What is a volcano
400
The movement of bits of rock and soil
What is erosion
400
Low area between higher landforms
What is a valley
400
How a canyon is formed
What is water
400
Compare a foot stool with a plateau
Both have flat tops and higher than the surrounding area
500
The shaking of Earth's surface
What is an earthquake
500
What is Imagine you are looking at an old map of a town. The map is 100 years old. You notice that the river today is not where it is on the old map. Is it possible? Explain.
Fast moving water carriers rock and soil which is erosion. New land builds up and changes the course of the river.
500
Flat are higher than the land around it
What is a plateau
500
Slow type of erosion
What is creep
500
A landslide can happen on what landform
What is a mountain